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The Peace Of Christmas Eve

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By Louis W. Koenig, Walter Lord, Richard F. Snow, Carl N. Degler
| American Heritage Verified
At Ghent five Americans—divided and far from home—held firm for a treaty that won their nation new respect, and began a lasting alliance It was St. John’s Day, a gentle introduction to summer, and the road, Lowered by leafing elms and poplars and oaks, carved through lush grain fields and meticulous flower gardens. The two reluctant traveling companions had set out from Antwerp at nine that morning.
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THE GROUPING OF AMERICA

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By Carl N. Degler
| The New York Times Verified
By leading his fundamentalist parishioners ''away from separation and premillenial resignation and despair,'' and toward participation in the world, Mr. Falwell enfranchised and energized ''what was perhaps the last unenfranchised and unempowered sector of the white population in the United States,'' she says. His ''historic achievement'' was to show his followers that they could successfully confront Ivy League intellectuals and resist Washington bureaucrats.
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Freedom After Slavery

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By Ryan Bradley, Carl N. Degler
| Virginia Quarterly Review Verified
With 1980, the long, intense, yet fruitful historical debate over the nature of slavery comes of age. It was just 21 years ago that Stanley Elkins published his slim book Slavery, which set in motion the most profound and extensive re-examination of a subject ever undertaken by professional historians in the United States. In the course of that exploration of slavery, several of the many books it produced won major prizes and made lasting advances in our understanding of the American past.
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